chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Jul 9, 2018 5:20:22 GMT -8
Good morning! Hope everyone had a great holiday weekend. Lots of green in the markets this morning, including AAPL, which is up more than a buck as I write this. Let's get back over $190. appleinsider has Researchers claim iPhone and iPad ownership is a wealth indicator. Although the title says "wealth," most of the article refers to "high income," which can certainly result in wealth if one were smart enough to have invested it in AAPL. PED has A dystopian vision of Apple’s next big thing, which describes a creepy application of Face ID-like technology in surveillance glasses for police in Zhengzhou. TechCrunch has Apple's Shortcuts will flip the switch on Siri's potential. If any members have actually used the new tech with the iOS 12 beta, I am eager to hear your impressions. appleinsider has Apple's latest iPhone X ad uses Face ID to ease password worries, which is for me is the real winner of the technology, now that I am old and feeble-brained. There is not a huge difference between Touch ID and Face ID for unlocking the devices themselves, but Face ID make using protected Web sites totally painless. I also think that Apple may extend its use to enable multiple users to share a single iPad, for instance. As Since84 would say...Let's make some money.
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Post by 4aapl on Jul 9, 2018 6:00:09 GMT -8
Lots of green in the markets this morning, including AAPL, which is up more than a buck as I write this. Let's get back over $190. ... As Since84 would say...Let's make some money. Nice to see aapl into $190. There's still a lot of calls and puts at 185 for the July 20th expiration, with 90k of each. That might not be enough to ensure movement, but with it more than a week from earnings, and volume lower recently, I wouldn't be surprised. There's a few other strikes with some larger OI, but none really within striking distance.
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Post by bud777 on Jul 9, 2018 9:01:35 GMT -8
I have not been too excited about AR despite the constant stream of articles describing it as the next big thing. While Apple is obviously investing a lot of money in it and has released two ARKits, I just can't see the attraction to a hundred Poke-man clones or the need to superimpose directional arrows on my vision. I keep wondering if Apple has become enamored with a solution in search of a problem.
Then today after reading PED's article, I saw something that got me excited. Think out a few years and imagine a world with ubiquitous 5G coverage from low earth orbit satellites. That technology pretty much exists, it is just an implementation problem. Now, instead of the dystopian vision described by PED, imagine looking at something and saying "Siri, what is this?
I have aways enjoyed hiking and have tried to learn as much as I could about the natural world, but I could never see the world the way that a trained botanist can. It is not just the vast scope of the flora, but also the challenge of understanding how the plants interact in a larger system. Now, I see the possibility that AR, 5G and the right app (ARKipedia?) can put a virtual botanist by my side. I chose botany for this example, but obviously, any field of knowledge could be used.
Apple is about using technology to enrich our lives. that has always been their driving purpose. I think Steve would be very excited about this.
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Post by BillH on Jul 9, 2018 9:12:32 GMT -8
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Post by incorrigible on Jul 9, 2018 10:22:28 GMT -8
I have not been too excited about AR despite the constant stream of articles describing it as the next big thing. I also don't see much AR stuff to get excited about. The one thing I did see which I thought had great application promise was the AR image thru the camera of buried underground utilities. The worker opens the app and uses the camera to look around while the software superimposed the various utility cable/pipe locations. Quite cool.
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Post by ono on Jul 9, 2018 11:12:17 GMT -8
www.marketwatch.com/story/how-iphone-buying-patterns-have-changed-over-time-in-one-chart-2018-07-09?siteid=yhoof2&yptr=yahooHow iPhone buying patterns have changed over time, in one chart Published: July 9, 2018 2:04 p.m. ET New iPhone models remain popular months before Apple launches its next lineup, while the iPhone 6 has seen a ‘resurgence’ Apple Inc.’s most recent iPhone lineup may not have launched with the momentum that investors initially hoped for, but analysts say it has had staying power. A greater portion of iPhone buyers are choosing phones from Apple’s AAPL, +1.35% latest line than chose from the then-most recent line a year ago, according to research from M Science, which looks at alternative data such as mobile-device activations. In other words, iPhone buyers in May were more likely to pick one of Apple’s newest iPhone models than iPhone buyers last May were, the analysts said.
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Post by ono on Jul 9, 2018 11:37:35 GMT -8
183M new models to be produced Apple Betting Big on Production of Forthcoming iPhones, Says BlueFin Despite what turned out to be disappointing sales of Apple’s (AAPL) newer iPhones this year, the company is ramping up production of the next models like never before, according to analysts John Donovan and Steve Mullane with the boutique research firm BlueFin Research Partners. Without citing sources, the duo write that Apple is planning for 91 million units to be built, combined, of three new models of iPhone in the latter two calendar quarters of this year, to be followed by another 92 million units in the first two quarters of next year. finance.yahoo.com/m/9aee229e-7930-3f06-890c-37a33958c93f/apple-betting-big-on.html?.tsrc=rss
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chinacat
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Post by chinacat on Jul 9, 2018 14:46:44 GMT -8
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Post by benoir on Jul 9, 2018 17:28:14 GMT -8
I have not been too excited about AR despite the constant stream of articles describing it as the next big thing. I also don't see much AR stuff to get excited about. The one thing I did see which I thought had great application promise was the AR image thru the camera of buried underground utilities. The worker opens the app and uses the camera to look around while the software superimposed the various utility cable/pipe locations. Quite cool. Au contraire! I think this is going to be huge. As you elucidate there are applications in construction and design. I already use AR on an iPad PRO to present ideas and interogate designs similar to this AR example Gaming is another area that will probably be successful with AR. Medical applications? Navigation and mapping? Like most emerging technologies we don't know where this will end up. I'm pretty sure most (all) people had no concept of what the internet could do 20-25 years ago. I think give it time.
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